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JQuery Tools - The UI library for the Web
- SwellJoe 17y agoSo, this is different from jQuery UI?
- kgrin 17y agoYes; it looks like it's more focused on a lightweight set of core features (obviously opinions as to what constitutes "core" features may vary). It actually seems more reminiscent of early mootools.
- dotandimet 17y agoThey specifically refer to the basic JQuery UI elements when they state, under "Essential tools for modern websites" <blockquote> Let's face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizables, selectables or sortable tables in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different. What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, smooth navigation, great visual effects and all those "web 2.0" goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites. This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library. </blockquote> This looks like repackaging the more popular stand-alone jQuery plugins/widgets into a single bundle/distribution, with nice docs and demos, very different from jQuery UI which is more like half a framework and some widgets.
- kristiandupont 17y agoAnd I have to say that I agree with them. Whenever I am confronted with, say, a "window" in a web app (i.e. a popup that I can move around in the browser), it just feels weird.
- kingsley_20 17y agoDifferent,yes, but not necessarily in a way that matters to me.
- audionerd 17y agoDo they list any advantage for using Flashembed over SWFObject? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
- behe101 17y agoFlashembed also serves as a jQuery plugin, which is a big plus.
- tkiley 17y agoSome of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool (http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a first-use help screen, and even then, it's disconcerting.
- marcusbooster 17y agoI dunno, combine it with a little animation on the element and you got yourself a nice little lightbox.
- misuba 17y ago...that doesn't behave like any other lightbox anywhere. This Expose tool is just flat-out bad UI; it emphasizes something, makes the user guess how to deemphasize it, and isn't visibly for anything.
- dchest 17y agoIt's just a "brick" for building your own things. Here: http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/overlay/expose.html http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/overlay/expose.html
- nixme 17y agoIt's useful for videos to minimize page clutter when you're not watching full screen. Hulu does a similar effect when you hit "Lower Lights" next to a playing video.
- MOdMac 17y agoIts good to see some more options but it still does not compare to jQuery UI with its unified styling and theme roller. I like having jQuery UI components standalone and using them as needed, relying on compression and merging tools like yui compressor to do their job. Being a smaller core set of components is not really a big benifit. They have a good point about the api improvements over jQuery UI but i can't see it being enough to switch.
- Spyckie 17y agoIt looks like flowplayer built custom animations for themselves and decided to release it as a library. Good publicity and a well designed website. I think the library itself has great video support but not much else.
- brown9-2 17y agoAren't all jQuery UI library's for the web?
- jonursenbach 17y agoWish our team had found this a month ago, we just finished building half of these things.
- csbartus 17y agoawesome, it's so put-together, i'll definitively use it. together with the jquery ui library.
- destrado 17y agohas anyone found a way to get non-minified js version of this library? to me this library is as good as closed-source